Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world.

We have assisted governmental and non-governmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender.

Futures Group has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

He/She will possess very strong competencies in programming, and developing programming solutions.

The Software Programmer will work closely with members of the existing software development team and will interact with local partner staff, Kenya ministries of health and international technical staff.

The Software Programmer will report to Chief of party, Kenya and Senior IT Manager (US) and provide support in all areas of software coding, application development, database development responsibilities.

Technical Skills:

Minimum five years hands-on, experience in coding and software applications development.